computer.md

Computer

Software I use on my compter{laptop, server, raspberrypi}, and recommendations for services

My attempt to get myself into documenting stuff. All the things I put I usually have had good experiences with and enjoy using.

Core System

• An Arch based GNU/Linux distribution
• Sway + Waybar
• Pipewire + Wireplumber + Pipewire-Pulse
• Connman > NetworkManager
• Kitty Terminal Emulator

Multimedia Applications

• Neomutt Email
• VLC or mpv for playing videos and audios
• Nautilus or Thunar
• Librewolf: Most fingerprinting resistant than most browser I have tried, and works out of the box
  • Essential Extensions:
    • Ublock Origin
    • LibRedirect
    • I don't care about cookies
• MPD (music player daemon): Simple way to listen to music

*aaS (* as a Service)

• Infrastructure
  • DigitalOcean: Generally good cloud service provider, students get $200 credit for 1yr.
  • Linode: Pretty good cloud service provider I would use if I didn't have DO credit
  • BuyVM: Ignores DMCA for Luxembourg server, accepts payments in monero, pretty good performance
  • Cloudflare: Best DNS provider I have used. Very good free cdn, but keep in mind the privacy implications of TLS interception.
• General Services
  • Migadu: Top tier email provider that gives 50% student discount
  • Porkbun: Amazing domain registration
  • doggo.ninja: W file host, it is invite only (challenge)
  • 0x0.st: Great public file host

Privacy frontends

• Youtube: Invidous or Piped
• YT Music: BeatBump or HyperPipe
• Reddit: Libreddit, teddit
• Wikipedia: Wikiless
• Twitter: Nitter

Selfhosted Services

• Cryptpad: Basically google drive/docs/sheets/slides/forms but encrypted
• Jellyfin: Give it some movie/tv files, and you soon will have your own netflix
• *arr stack: Automated downloading (usually via torrent) of movies, tv, audio, ...
• Authentik: Federated identity provider (oauth server)
• SearXNG: Fork of SearX, a private search aggregator